The King and I is set to return the London’s West End next year.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will start in June 2018 at the London Palladium.
Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center Theater production is set to transfer with cast members Kelli O’Hara, who won a Tony Award for her role as Anna, and Ken Watanbe, who made his Broadway debut in the musical.
Based on Margaret Landon’s 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam, the musical is about Anna, an English teacher who is employed by the King of Siam in an effort to try and modernise his country, but their relationship and its conflicts takes its toll.
The score includes the well-known numbers ‘Something Wonderful’, ‘I Whistle a Happy Tune’, ‘I Have Dreamed’ and ‘Shall We Dance?’.
The King and I was last seen in London at the London Palladium in 2000, directed by Christopher Renshaw and starring Elaine Paige. The show went on to be nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical production.
The show originally ran in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in October 1953, and ran for 946 performances.
Casting and details on how to book tickets is to be announced.
